how did I know that the man behind the name "60LimaBravo" was an ex military man... here's to you Sir.<br><br>***<br>"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." <br> -- Ecclesiastes 10:2

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"In the old days, you'd finish a day's work and announce, 'I'm done.' Nobody ever does that now. There's never enough time." -- Elliott Masie

There's more to that poem that you quote that reflects Kipling's (and his century's) naive vision of (a) the racial superiority of Europeans and (b) the unproblematic benefits of colonialism. It doesn't take a whole lot of thinking to see who really benefitted from colonialism, starting in the 16th century and going on to the present.<br><br>I'm not dumb enough to think that Europeans are the only ones who've used colonial hegemony to advance their own interests, but it's been the Europeans for the most part who've mystified that self-advancement as something that's profoundly good for those whose lands and wealth they've expropriated.<br><br>And that's true too/--Shakespeare, King Lear

Never said that, 60limabravo. Did say that Europeans are the only folks who think that their domination of others is a good thing. Maybe it has to do with Christianity, which is much like Islam in seeing itself as a good thing no matter how it gets started.<br><br>Keep in mind the other side of the coin, by the way. If it weren't for the colonies that provided all that wealth and raw material to fuel the industrial revolution, Europe and its surrogates would not be so wonderful as they are. I know: it's great to be rich and powerful; but to get to that position we sure expropriated a whole lot of the planet.<br><br>And that's true too/--Shakespeare, King Lear

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